Broadband & gluttony: We’re fat for a reason

As if it isn’t hard enough maintaining the fashionably not-quite-svelte figure that I do (my wine, potato chip and taquito diet being a little-known secret of the stars, you know), now I find out that there’s a new battle of the bulge – the bulging broadband pipe, that is. You see, I might need to go on a content diet. And you, too.

The average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content per day, and that’s growing, according to a new report from the University of California in San Diego. A full 34 GB, in Web, television, gaming, print, radio ... but most of it is multimedia. Print, for its part, only accounts for 8.61 percent...